[Illustration 365: Bluish white.] [Illustration: NEST OF CARDINAL.] [Illustration: right hand margin.] Page 364 593c. GRAY-TAILED CARDINAL. _Cardinalis cardinalis canicaudus._ Range.--Northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. The male of this species is like the eastern Cardinal but the female is said to be grayer. The nesting habits are the same and the eggs identical with those of the latter. 593d. FLORIDA CARDINAL. _Cardinalis cardinalis floridanus._ Range.--Southern Florida. Supposed to be a deeper and richer shade of red. Eggs like those of cardinalis. 594. ARIZONA PYRRHULOXIA. _Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata._ Range.--Northwestern Mexico and the southern border of New Mexico, Arizona and western Texas. This species is of similar form and crested like a Cardinal, but the bill is very short and hooked like that of a Parrot; the plumage is grayish, with wings and tail dull reddish; face and throat, and middle of belly rosy red. Their habits are the same as those of the Cardinal, but their nests are said to be slighter; they are placed in similar locations to those of the latter, the two species often nesting together in the same thicket. Their eggs are like those of the Cardinal but average smaller, although the ranges overlap so that the eggs cannot be distinguished. Size .90 x .70. Data.--San Antonio, Texas, May 16, 1889. Nest of fine grasses, lined with rootlets; 4 feet from ground in a mesquite tree. 594a. TEXAS PYRRHULOXIA. _Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana._ Range.--Northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. Said to be grayer and the bill to average larger than that of the last. There are no differences in the nesting habits or eggs between the two varieties. 594b. SAN LUCAS PYRRHULOXIA. _Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulæ._ Range.--Southern Lower California. Smaller than the Arizona Cardinal but with a larger bill. The eggs are like those of the others but may average a trifle smaller. [Illustration 366: Cardinal.] [Illustration: Bluish white.] [Illustration: Texas Pyrrhuloxia.] [Illustration: left hand margin.] Page 365 595. ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. _Zamelodia ludoviciana._ Range.--United States, east of the Plains, breeding from the Middle States and Ohio north to Manitoba and Nova Scotia. This beautiful black and white bird with rosy red breast and under wing coverts, is one of the most pleasing of our songsters. They nest either in bushes or trees, generally between six and twenty feet from the ground and usually in thick clumps of trees or scrubby apple trees. The three or four eggs, which are laid in June, are greenish blue, spotted, most heavily about the larger end, with reddish brown. Size 1.00 × .75. Data.--Worcester, Mass., June 5, 1899. Nest of twigs and rootlets in small apple tree in woods; nest very frail, eggs showing through the bottom. 596. BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK. _Zamelodia melanocephala._